Employee floods the boss’s DMs, dutifully reporting every single moment away from their desk after the micromanager demands to keep tabs on their whereabouts: ‘Every time I leave my desk’ – FAIL Blog

Bosses love the idea of micromanaging because every leadership book they’ve ever listened to before bed and every alpha podcast they have running in the background of their minds tells them to. Slackjawed and marveling at their own might, bosses believe that they should wield their power in the workplace with an iron fist, which of course, doesn’t mean delegation or trusting your workers; to them, flexing their prowess means initiating time-wasting rules in an attempt to keep tabs on everyone’s productivity, hoping that the stress of personal reporting keeps people in line. 

Well, well, well, my friend, the boss in this next story clearly underestimated how petty office workers can be and realized a little too late that when he was giving orders to report, he was going to receive some well-executed, highly detailed reports on people’s non-work-related tasks. Turns out, workers do a lot on the job that has nothing to do with spreadsheets and figures, but the boss didn’t realize how many personal details would be revealed in the process.